Van Halen Considered Replacing David Lee Roth In 1977

Organizer Fabio Zaffagnini spent a year planning the massive outdoor event to create the video as a plea to the Foo Fighters to come to Cesena. The clip quickly went viral, racking up 18 million views in just 5 days; it's now been seen more than 25 million times.

"I'll never forget that day that my phone was flooded with texts from friends, all saying "Have you seen this???", "Amazing!", "So insane!" with an anonymous YouTube link attached," says Grohl. "Assuming it was just another "CAT GETTING STUCK IN A PAPER BAG" video, I didn't bite at first, but after the 10,000th message, I clicked the link and was absolutely blown away by what I saw.

"To see so many people put so much time, and effort, and love into making music moved me to tears. And the fact that it was a Foo Fighters song...well...it's hard to put into words how humbled that made me feel. It is without a doubt one of the most beautiful experiences of my entire life. I walked outside, sat on the grass, turned my camera on and immediately responded (in my best broken Italian) "Stiamo arrivando! Prometto!"

"You guys ever have an experience where you are in a clutch moment and you have somebody there that's like your wheel-man and the guy just turns out to be a total f***ing dewclaw?," said Mustaine in a video message to fans. "Like a totally waste of skin and life?

He passed away "unexpectedly" in Dunkirk, New York. Bandmate and fellow singer Danny Hutton says: "It is with deep sadness and disbelief that I must report the passing of Cory Wells, my beloved band mate for over 45 years.

Ian says: "I was very affected, as I have been with all the shootings at schools and movie theatres. I can't figure out what would cause someone to think that was the right thing to do.

Originally set to begin November 10 in Atlanta, GA, Gibbons will reschedule the first 12 dates into early next year while moving the tour's official launch to November 27 in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Steve Miller jumped on stage to jam the Steve Miller Band classic "The Joker" with Billy and his band. Miller was in town to receive the Rocker of the Year Award at the annual Little Kids Rock benefit gala. Watch video of the jam here.

Producer George Martin said about the song (via the Beatles' website): 'Plugging directly into the Abbey Road desk and pushing the needles into the red achieved the fuzz-guitar sound. We got into distortion on that, which we had a lot of complaints from the technical people about. But that was the idea: it was John's song and the idea was to push it right to the limit. Well, we went to the limit and beyond."

The band once again teamed up with Daniel "Cloud" Campos to direct the video that continues on the "This Is Gospel" video, which Campos directed for the band in 2013. Watch the new Emperor's New Clothes" clip here.

The Smith & Myers unplugged tour will be kicking off on December 4th at Club LA in Destin, Florida and concluding on December 19th in Libertyville, IL at Austin's Fuel Room.

The track was the lead single from the group's fifth album, "A Farewell To Kings", which peaked at No. 33 on the US Billboard 200 on its way to Platinum status for sales of more than 1 million copies.

"Closer To The Heart" follows the debuts of "Roll The Bones" and "Jacob's Ladder" as previews to the live package, which is set for release on November 20.

Pete Wentz tells Rolling Stone: "We wanted to come up with a song that would make sense as a Fall Out Boy song. We interpreted it more as a rock song, which was more of a challenge than expected - but I think how it turned out is pretty interesting."

They will be kicking off the tour in Lincoln, Nebraska, on November 17. They will be joined by support acts Devour The Day, Audiotopsy and Sons Of Texas.

Touchstone will play their last shows with the pair next month, announced after Seviour decided her long-term health issues made it impossible for her to continue.

Cottingham says: "It's been a privilege to see the band grow from the very early days when I kicked the band off with a totally different line up in a small village hall.

Drummer Portnoy says "We're so excited to bring the three-ring circus that is The Winery Dogs to Europe and the UK. We did our best to hit as many places as we could in the available window.

He believes that will be remedied when Sabbath take the Main Stage on Saturday, June 11, and Maiden close the event the following night. Halford tells Metal Hammer: "It's absolutely brilliant. I'm hoping to catch that if I can. I wonder if my two pence had something to do with that?

"As much as I love the American side of metal and rock, I thought it was a bit lacking on the British side of things last year. That's been put right now. I wish we could have been on the bill too - it would have been absolutely massive to have three big British metal bands.

But the intervention of a fan, who's also a cancer expert, led to innovative medical procedures that saved Johnson's life - giving the feature an unexpected finale. The result is described as "a film that confronts our worst nightmares of impending death, confounding expectations and turning them upside down."

Mainman Ian Anderson wound the band down in 2011 after deciding his future material would be released under his own name. Since then he's been touring with his own outfit, while his former guitarist is doing the same.

Barre tells UCR: "I always hate to hear, 'Oh, you've left Jethro Tull.' I haven't - Ian wanted to finish Jethro Tull, wanted to stop the band completely.

Ponty recently said: "Collaborating with Jon is unlike any project I have done before. The result is way beyond my expectations - we are not just rehashing the past, but giving a new life to the music we started developing decades ago."

But consumer's association Which? says Stubhub, Viagogo, WorldTicketShop and Ticketmaster-owned Get Me In! and Seatwave were found to be reselling some tickets "with no clear information as to where fans would be sitting."

The band brought in a BBC wildlife camera crew to make their performance video unique. Frontman Matt Reynolds had the following to say about the new clip:

5 Seconds Of Summer - Luke Hemmings, Michael Clifford, Calum Hood and Ashton Irwin - played She's Kinda Hot on tiny plastic instruments in a video for Sugarscape.

The bandleader, who revealed the trio in August, says: "The record has a number of moods - but overall, it's a rather disgruntled rant at the dystopia we've created for ourselves and our children.

"Roger and I worked together for quite a few years in the Steve Hackett band. His strengths are my weaknesses and I believe we complement each other rather well.

I've always felt like I was different than the people I knew. I had this sinking feeling ever since I was a kid, but after a while I started growing accustomed to it. When I was a kid, I listened to metal music, but played the saxophone. When I was older, I studied jazz music, but rocked a red motorcycle leather jacket and a mohawk. I practiced martial arts, but was never interested in fighting in the streets. And when my skateboarding friends went out to drink and cause trouble, I preferred to stay inside practicing scales.

In the last years my growing accustomed to this status quo has turned into becoming proud of the fact. And I've also gotten to know lots of other people who feel the same, so it doesn't feel that lonely anymore.

Shining's new single "The Last Stand" is about this. About not wanting to do what other people do, and announcing that you're not interested in doing it either. It also touches upon our own unique musical genre "Blackjazz" that we established in 2010 with our album of the same name, with song lyrics such as "I made this, this is my land, and I won't stand where you all stand", and "But I'm here all alone on my Blackjazz throne".

The band tracks for the song was recorded in two studios in Oslo, Norway, before I went to live in Los Angeles for a period, where I finished the vocal tracks between a few European tours. When it was time for mixing, I was still in the middle of non-stop touring, so our trusted producer Sean Beavan (Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Slayer, No Doubt) in Los Angeles bought a software app that allowed him to stream in real time from his studio, so I sit in my own studio in Oslo or in a backstage at a club in Germany and listen to him making tweaks. We had Skype running on one computer and the mixing-software on another, and it worked great! If you're a touring musician and like to also be hands-on when it comes to record production, I wholeheartedly recommend trying out the software called Source-Live.